Mirror Earth The Search for Our Planet's Twin

Name: Mirror Earth The Search for Our Planet's Twin
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ISBN: 9780802779007

ISBN-10: 080277900X

ISBN-13: 9780802779007

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael D. Lemonick

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In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they detected three planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. The planets were nothing like Earth, however: They were giant gas balls like Jupiter or Saturn. More than five hundred planets have been found since then, yet none of them could support life.Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Science writer Michael D. Lemonick has unique access to these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, andMirror Earthunveils their passionate quest. Geoff Marcy, at the University of California, Berkeley, is the world’s most successful planet hunter, having found two of the first three extra-solar…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Walker & Company
Publication date: 10/16/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



The Man Who Looked for Blinking Stars



The Man Who Looked for Wobbling Stars



Hot Jupiters: Who Ordered Those?



An Ancient Question



The Dwarf-Star Strategy



Imagining Alien Atmospheres



Invasion of the Female Exoplaneteers



Kepler Approved



Waiting for Launch



Kepler Scooped



"A 100 Percent Chance of Life"



The Kepler Era Begins



Beyond Kepler



How Many Earths?



What Does "Habitable" Really Mean?



A World Made of Rock, at Last



Astronomers in Paradise



Sara's Birthday Party


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index